July 12, 2017

Data Source and Map Properties

For this exercise I aquired data from:

  • NCES IPEDS data inventory

  • Hovering your mouse over the points will show their:
    1. latitude/langitude
    2. name
    3. webpage

  • You can also zoom in or out of the map

US Higher Education Institutions

More Details…

  • Plotly can use a set of tools from mapbox.com
  • For this plot I have used plot_mapbox(…) function from the plotly package
  • In order for plotly package to use the mapbox toolset, the user needs a MAPBOX access token (free)
  • I have used the keyringr package to hide my password from showing in the code (to upload on Github)